In leather jacket and shades, Cliff Richard plays it cool for his 100th album

RELAXED in jeans and fashionable shades, evergreen superstar Cliff Richard gears up to release his 100th album with a bumper crop of tracks.

Cliff rolls back the years in jacket and jeans as he roars back to his rock and roll roots

Sir Cliff, who looks several decades younger than his 72 years, has had plenty of practice at looking cool behind the wheel over his career spanning half a century.

Now he is going back to his roots with 15 classic early rock ’n’ roll cover versions. To be released on November 11, the collection could see Sir Cliff topping the album charts in time for Christmas.

Recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee – host to some of America’s biggest acts – the album is intended as a tribute to his own musical heroes such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.

Now said to be worth over £50million, the star can still remember saving his pocket money to buy rock ’n’ roll albums in the mid-Fifties.

“That whole period was new and unbelievably exciting, and to think that I was there saving up my pocket money for weeks so that I could buy Elvis’s first album, borrowing someone else’s collection of Little Richard songs. My name, in part, was a tribute to him,” added Sir Cliff, who was born Harry Webb.

The singer was not always so clean cut, admitting he also “skipped school” to see Bill Haley play. Sir Cliff is calling his latest album The Fabulous Rock ’n’ Roll Songbook.

“This is my tribute to the artists who took rock ’n’ roll to the top of the charts,” he added.

“I loved rock ’n’ roll then and I still love it now.”

The 72-year-old still looks as good today as he did in the Sixties (above)

I loved rock ’n’ roll then and I still love it now

Cliff Richard

Cliff's £52 million fortune

WITH a personal fortune estimated at £52million, Sir Cliff has certainly put his money where his mouth is during his 55 years in showbusiness.

The star owns a £7.5million villa set on 50 acres in Barbados. His colonial-style mansion sits within the exclusive Sugar Hill Resort where singer Cilla Black and impresario Simon Cowell also own properties.

The star also spends time in a £5million estate he owns near Albufeira in Portugal. It has its own vineyard where he makes his Vida Nova wine. He also owns a £1million apartment in New York and a £3million art deco mansion in Sunningdale, Berkshire.